Ground States of Spin-1/2 Triangular Antiferromagnets in a Magnetic Field

Abstract

We use a combination of density matrix renormalization group calculations and analytical approaches to study a simplified model for a spatially anisotropic spin-1/2 triangular lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet: the three-leg triangular spin tube (TST). The model is described by three Heisenberg chains, with exchange constant J, coupled antiferromagnetically with exchange constant J' along the diagonals of the ladder system, with periodic boundary conditions in the shorter direction. We determine the full phase diagram of this model as a function of spatial anisotropy, J'/J, and magnetic field. We find a rich phase diagram, which is dominated by quantum states - phases corresponding to the classical ground state appears only in a small region. Among the dominant phases generated by quantum effects are commensurate and incommensurate coplanar quasi-ordered states, which appear in the vicinity of the isotropic region for most fields, and in the high field region for most anisotropies. The coplanar states, while not classical ground states, can be understood semiclassically. Even more strikingly, the largest region of phase space is occupied by a spin density wave phase, which has incommensurate collinear correlations along the field. This phase has no semiclassical analog, and may be ascribed to enhanced one-dimensional (1d) fluctuations due to frustration. Cutting across the phase diagram is a magnetization plateau, with a gap to all excitations and up up down spin order, with a quantized magnetization equal to 1/3 of the saturation value. In the TST, this plateau extends almost but not quite to the decoupled chains limit. Most of the above features are expected to carry over to the two dimensional system, which we also discuss. At low field, a dimerized phase appears, which is particular to the 1d nature of the TST, and which can be understood from quantum Berry phase arguments.

arXiv commentPublished version with 45 pages, 26 figures. Numerical results (Fig.25) and discussion of the magnetization plateau in 2d system are added. References are updated

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